Otaro Maijo (Director)

Japan Animator Expo

The short film series "Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition" presented by Studio Khara and Dwango Original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films etc... Various omnibus animations produced with love and energy, regardless of any genres. The digital distribution anime series bring opportunities for project development, R&D, human resources development, and free production under limited period and budget, to explore the possibilities of future film production.

Release Date2014-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count7

ID: INVADED

Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that invades a person’s identity. Little by little, a trail of blood forms, and it all leads back to his daughter’s murderer.

Release Date2020-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count13

Vote Count79

The Dragon Dentist

The story takes place in Dragon Country. Nonoko is a newly appointed dentist and her mission is to protect the dragon, the guardian of the country, from tooth-cavity bacteria. One day, amid increasingly fierce battles with the neighboring country, Nonoko finds on the dragon's tooth an unconscious boy soldier from the enemy country. His name is Bell, and he has been resurrected from inside the tooth by the dragon—a supernatural phenomenon that legend says occurs before a major disaster. As Nonoko and Bell go through a series of fierce battles, they eventually learn to accept their fate.

Release Date2017-02-18

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Episode Count2

Vote Count20

Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo

The short focuses on the God Warrior from Nausicaa of The Valley of The Wind (1984). Super-powered bio-weapons in ceramic armor begin attacking Tokyo, annihilating human civilization.

Release Date2012-07-10

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Vote Count47

Neck

Tomokazu Shudo has his first ever crush on Sugina Mayama, a senior student. Tomokazu has troubles confessing his feelings to the popular student, but one day, he is invited to the research lab where Sugina Mayama works. Tomokazu hopes to use this meeting to express his true feelings for her. To Tomokazu's surprise, when he arrives he first sees a big wooden box in the middle of the dark lab. Sugina tells Tomokazu that he looks scared and then proceeds to push Tomokazu into the box!

Release Date2010-08-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Three Films about Coffee

A Japanese omnibus film composed of three short dramas—Good Night Caffeine, Hanabi Cafe, and BREAK—that each center around coffee-themed moments and the personal growth of their characters.

Release Date2015-03-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Dragon Dentist

A girl comes there to become a dentist of dragon. She is with other new freshman applicants, but there is no announcement from a senior as a guidance. They are confused and taken along with the senior. The only way is just to walk through freshman's path, which is dark and strange. They do not know where they are. Not knowing what to do, she is approaching to the secret of dragon, but she does not realize yet. The adventure has already begun.

Release Date2014-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Hammerhead

A bad man becomes a superhero and goes on a rampage.

Release Date2015-07-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Special Kid Factory

After discovering he's a clone, an ordinary boy Genpei is unexpectedly thrust into a galaxy-spanning adventure to solve murders and challenge the sinister forces shaping their universe, where he must decide if he will remain just a clone or rise as a hero in a dystopian future.

DepartmentWriting

JobSeries Composition

Episode Count1